> Thank you, that may be a better solution. I was hoping to avoid a solution 
> which required multiple AP's or two-radio nodes, but looking at the number of 
> devices that may beed to be connected it would be wiser to design a system to 
> nominally work with 50 devices and have "expansion packs" for the 
> installations that had a larger number of devices or poor signal propagation. 
> I know hanging that many devices off one or two AP's is against convention, 
> but the data requirements are relatively low: 2s status updates (<100 
> bytes/device), 3 to 5 min animal records (<1500 bytes/device/animal), 
> end-of-session records (<5000 bytes/device/session). The main concern is 
> issuing control signals from the hand-held devices over the top of the base 
> traffic without suffering huge latencies. 
> 

I'm no wifi specialist, but I found this to be a very interresting talk:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa12/building-wireless-network-high-density-users

There might be some useful tips in there ?

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